skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What will happen is that when you ask the AI to summarize a book to remove the fluff, it will inject random mentions of how the main character decided to drink a Coke.

Let's go with truly open models! you say. That way we can be sure there are no shoddy behind-the-scenes deal going on between the model provider and some company or government.

But the ads are in the training data, they are part of the fabric of the world. You can't get rid of them except if you do the training yourself, which is a huge amount of work, and maybe impossible (because model providers escape copyright laws, and you can't).
Isn't there a flip side to this? earlier today i saw someone tweet that monads are indirection, not abstraction.
In reference to Russia having security concerns regarding the behavior of the West here are two books to read:

https://www.amazon.com/Flight-MH17-Ukraine-new-Cold/dp/15261...

https://www.amazon.com/Provoked-Washington-Started-Catastrop...
I'm Building an AI for Payroll
I’m in a completely different field, working in healthcare. This letter would rank well above the average one I get.

I receive cover letters with typos, the wrong word used, poor punctuation etc. If candidates could use a spell checking it would be a good start.
> some people use caffeine powder / pills for gym stuff apparently.

At 200mg per pill, which is the strongest I had, I'd still have to down some 70+ pills in one go. Not strictly impossible, but not something you could possibly do by accident, and even for the purpose of early check-out, it wouldn't be my first choice.
Some of the listing services actually do charge employers per applicant, unless they are rejected within a certain amount of time (usually 48 or 72 hrs).
It's wrong enough and unsourced enough that it's more cognitive load to vet the result than not having it.

Google is barely more useful because of this.
The parent post highlights one of the core reasons behind the failure of FOSS: its growth was built on a base that cared only about the gratis aspect without any real interest in the libre aspect. They're perfectly happy to take any FOSS they can get for free and pay for any proprietary software needed with the money they saved.
I think even when the answer is "right" in some sense, it should probably come within the context of a bunch of caveats, explanations, etc.

But maybe I'm just weird. Oftentimes when my wife or kids ask me a question, I take a deep breath and start to say something like "I know what you're asking, but there's not a simple or straightforward answer; it's important to first understand ____ or define ____..." by which time they get frustrated with me.
It's interesting when people say "No. Just no." and then go on to explain. Wasn't the response supposed to be "just" a no?
I've had jobs where I'd absolutely be sent home if I turned up wearing jeans. Might be a little less likely these days but there are many jobs and situations where this still applies.

It's also about showing respect to the host, you dress nicely. Would you wear jeans to church or to a wedding?
Did you not read the part of my comment were I clarified "cities without major homeless shelter capabilities"? New York has major cities that have the infrastructure and resources to shelter homeless populations during major cold events. Plenty of Northern CITIES have those capabilities, but WV doesn't. WV doesn't have a single major city and doesn't have the capabilities to shelter a homeless population during major cold events.
Another factor is that it’s too hard to evict people. So you’re not going to give chances to those on the margins.
>So I would assume that if a case to be made for taking down the website - it is because it did not convey it is a parody and was edging defamation.

IANAL but under US law that most certainly wouldn't apply because spotify isn't a "non-public person".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_light

My guess is that they used the (still spurious) excuse of trademark infringement, since it uses "spotify" in its name and you could plausibly argue that consumers would be deceived into thinking it's an official spotify site. Most would probably realize it isn't, but the use of "spotify" in its name, and the fact it doesn't disclaim the it's a non-official site probably exposed itself to legal threats.
I think I’ve had such a bad experience with openAIs charGPT answering a question falsely and sounding very convincing that I skip the AI overview or double check to confirm it’s correct. Am I mad?
The perspective of the article seems to be of a person who has not worked in cookie-cutter software engineering environments, which is what 99% of software engineering is. Here formal methods and verification are irrelevant, nobody has heard of it, and nobody cares. It's about churning out some crappy internal webapp or mobile app or data eng/science pipeline at the lowest cost by some soulless bigco (or startup). LLMs are already super useful for this.

Also, the argument about LLMs being black-box is a miss, because LLMs are writing software, they are not the software; programmers writing software are also black boxes. Also, there's nothing in the way of running formal methods on the software produced by an LLM, it will fail the same as it fails on software written by humans, since most formal verification doesn't even make sense for 99% of software.

Also, anybody who has used LLMs as aids for writing simple/smaller chunks of code (and other documents) knows that they're super useful (sometimes magic). It's like Steve Ballmer saying the iphone is a joke in 2007.
> That aside, nothing you said about LLMs doesn't apply to humans as well.

Humans make mistakes in a diverse way, that makes groups of them much better than an LLM that will amplify its own mistakes.

Computer programs has to be extremely better than a single human since they lack the group dynamics of humans, so as long as you compare single humans to AI people will rightfully demand more from the AI.

If all humans ran the same program and gave the same answers then humans would be way less useful, that is where LLM are today.
Germany has issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian suspect.
Do any of your real life friends accuse you of racism?

Do you find that Indian managers hire their own?

I'm assuming you're not Indian.

I applied to FedEx affiliated company for SWE, and everyone except upper management was Indian. I was shocked.
Remember that two things have changed the employment landscape:

- the end of zero interest rate policies mean that investments in projects can’t show a return “someday” but actually have to show some benefit on a reasonable timeline, say 2-3 years. Gone are the days when hiring armies of warm bloodies and having them work on “moon shots”.

- the expiration of the tax write off for programmer salaries when developing a new product.

The bottom line is that most of the market is now very price sensitive (hence trying to find the cheapest labor i.e. less experienced or overseas devs) and that devs in high-cost geographic areas now need to be extra productive to complete.
This sounds like a good and noble pursuit, but I would be able to take exactly one ghosting or premature rejection before abandoning it completely. There are so many BS reasons applications are ignored, I can’t see this approach working well. Maybe if you can network your way to a manager or something
I had no idea about this, but did manage to find an article from this summer on it: https://abcnews.go.com/US/maui-strong-808-maui-fire-survivor...

You're right though, not much mainstream media traction on this story.

> FEMA has allocated $197 million to three companies, none of which are based in Hawaii, to administer the Direct Lease program

Smells of borderline corruption from the get-go. What a shit show.
Kubernetes, Rust, Linux and DOS? The year in Open Source
Obviously attempts of bullying victim to join a friend group that might protect them is provocative to the bully, as it might limit their capacity to do the bullying.

The question is, why should we avoid doing it rather than let them escalate and use this opportunity to stomp the bully. Which is in the works and will happen in few years.
Does youtube music have a desktop app yet? Or do they still expect me to hunt down one of my many tabs in one of my many browser windows any time I want to change a song? It's a ridiculous UX killer.

I also don't want my music to stop when I restart my browser.
The consequence is a rapidly aging society which is terrible for everyone. It's terrible for the huge undercared-for, neglected bloc of elderly. It's terrible for the smaller amount of overworked, overtaxed young people.
I believe that from Microsoft's perspective, it most certainly had a purpose. The purpose was marketing/advertising the OpenGL/3D capabilities of NT.
The entirety of the state of California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13
This hasn't been my experience for black tech workers. HR bent over backward to keep them when they found a higher paying job elsewhere.
all my own ideas in there. I was thinking of writing it up more formally, but I am more of a 'think -> build -> next thing' kind of person.
The only part of this that is totally implausible is the notion that Magnus wouldn't be super familiar with the rules.

I'm not saying I agree with the rule or the specific way it was applied... But Magnus definitely knows the rules.

Edit: for people downvoting... Can you please explain how the world's best chess player of all times wouldn't be familiar with FIDE rules? How is that even plausible? All of the players who compete at these events know the rules.
It seems damning enough that Google itself doesn't know what is a more authoritative source or they would have weighted their AI output appropriately.

What does that say about their traditional search results?
I agree it's more complicated, but I don't see NIMBYism as inherently 'progressive'/'not-progressive', I don't think it's as simple as "just build more housing, it needs to be something like, build more housing where it makes sense". Like if we turned Mill Valley into Kowloon City tomorrow, sure we would have more "housing", but no one benefits". That's extreme, but I think blaming NIMBYism completely doesn't cover the logical progression.
I just want to be able to turn the stupid overview off. That's all. One simple toggle.

I don't get why a Google Workspaces account can have Gemini forcibly disabled across the entire enterprise yet still have these AI features seep in with no way to manage it at the enterprise level.
You don't need a new ticket if you miss you transfer. You only have t be on time for the first train, which is probably waking distance in most cases.
This is a great narrative, but it turns out that it's not true.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/california...

> The overwhelming majority of homeless people surveyed were locals, not migrants from far away: 90 percent lost their last housing in California, and 75 percent lost it in the same county where they were experiencing homelessness. Of the 10 percent who came from elsewhere, 30 percent were born in California. Most of the others had familial or employment ties, or had previously lived in the state.
We need to move zoning to the federal level like Japan

We must decide whether we’ll be a civilization that bows to NIMBYism and stays stuck in squalor or allow building the future.
The NPUs on laptops don't have access to enough memory to run very large models.
Yes, companies went out of their way to hire people of color... to rectify historical discrepancies.

Also worth noting the original headline for your linked piece about Best Buy is "Best Buy, McKinsey partner to develop diverse leaders" (ah, the progressive radicals bringing down our country... McKinsey!) and your linked piece about the London transport team comes from some sensationalist outlet I've never heard of, whose founder appears to be writing articles about how "Jill Biden's White House Christmas decorations are predictably ghastly." Not sure I trust that as an unbiased source.
Land is already taxed on value
Lots of Russians fled to KZ in 2022.
The median lethal dose (LD50) of caffeine in humans is estimated to be 150–200 milligrams per kilogram of body mass. However, the lethal dose can vary depending on a person's sensitivity to caffeine, and can be as low as 57 milligrams per kilogram.

Route of administration
Oral 367.7 mg/kg bw
Dermal >2000 mg/kg bw
Inhalation LC50 combined: ca. 4.94 mg/L

ref: https://i.imghippo.com/files/yeKK3113pE.png 13:25EST (by a Kagi shill ftr)
The Data-Center Boom Eats Up a Lot of Land. Atlanta Says It's Gone Too Far
Is there a solution that doesn’t expose you to the entirety of the internet at one time? Proactive networking maybe? Asking existing employees if they have friends looking for jobs?
Not really a problem for me but that's because I had the foresight to realize this is the way things are going and that it's time to get into my own thing and start my own companies if I am going to survive. The thing that was the writing on the wall for me ages ago was seeing older programmers with plenty of talent finding it hard to get work in their field, like the ageism thing, if you're past 35 or so and still just doing the labour thing and not in a management position people tend to give you the side eye in this industry...

So yeah if nobody is going to promote you to that you gotta promote yourself and start a company, that has been clear to me for at least 5 years since I did that. It's kind of weird seeing people complain as if this is a race subject though. I think the discrimination may be there for that but it's beyond it too and has been for a LONG time now.
Why? Taxes shouldn’t be punitive. Remove barriers to building. The end. People are willing to try everything other than the solution…
In terms of international law and international maritime law, this is a fascinating case. Without directly applicable precedent, an actor does what it can/must within existing law.

Finland has always been very conservative in such matters, and you can be sure that they thought long and hard about what their public legal position will be before they boarded the ship.

The Russians will be conservative here too, because obviously the existing body of law has worked in their favor, giving them space to operate a "black fleet" - and to use it to execute sabotage. Or so they thought...
Times a changing I guess! I swear I remember it being around 30% which doesn’t show on your chart but that doesn’t change the narrative. Online dominating.
Yes, that’s totally true! I think this is a much more interesting problem when we get rid of the drug addiction component. It is just sad that drug addiction is consuming all of our social resources that could otherwise go into solving housing problems.

A lot of kids from Vicksburg also move to LA and don’t make it because of housing costs, so they move elsewhere. But should they have made it? Should LA be affordable enough for everyone who wants to live there to live there? If not, but we want to subsidize housing for some segment of the American population to live in LA, how do we prioritize? If yes, how much housing do we need to build to satisfy all American and international demand to live in LA?
Last year I had two new pieces of hardware and Mint was too old, so gave fedora a try. Have been happy with it. There’s a bit less integration with cinnamon but having much newer packages has come without instability so feels like a good tradeoff.

Have been experimenting with systemd-boot and UKI and not in a hurry to go back. I think the Python version is two major releases ahead. Kernel may be three.

I had to write my own script to assign a specific mirror, which was harder than it should have been but is done now.
I have ported Forth to a dozen small microcontrollers and my experience
writing much of the bootstrap code in Forth tells me that you are better off
coding Forth in a "vertical" style (ie one word per line with stack picture
comments), rather than the terse "horizontal" code of "everything on one line"
that many of the folks using Forth (including @yosefk, the author) seem to prefer.

Given how close Forth is to assembly (seen from an implementer's point of view)
it makes sense to write Forth in a "vertical" style which reflects the
"vertical" style in which assembly code is written. This has the advantage that
the "stack picture comments" on each line of code can stand in for Hoare triplets
so that the code and its - I'll call it - "proof" can be written hand in hand
at the same time.

This is how all of the Forth code that I've written in
https://github.com/romforth/romforth is structured.

It does make the code appear less compact though so you are not going to win
any code golf prizes.
Some abstractions are so ingrained you don't even think of them as abstractions. A file is an abstraction. A socket is an abstraction. The modern terminal is an abstraction.

People only notice bad abstractions.
Lots of people would benefit if they had housing to live in. There's no need for it to be some extreme thing like your example.

NIMBYism is to blame for the lack of hundreds of homes here in the small city I live in, in Oregon, since I started tracking these things.

It's not the only factor, but things like interest rates are something our city councils and state legislatures can't control. Saying 'yes' to a new apartment building is very much something they can control.
AMD Continued Ramping Up Their Linux and Open-Source Investments in 2024
It all ends up being a nasty feedback loop. (Especially) junior people in a somewhat tough market for tech end up spamming resumes so companies respond with pretty crappy algorithmic filters which basically somewhat randomly toss most of the resumes into the bit bucket. Rinse and repeat.

But per downthread comment, applicants don't care if their actions make things worse for the market as a whole. And it's not clear if they should as a one-turn game. (As someone else remarked, Prisoner's Dilemma and all that.)
Lack of housing. The poorest states in the US (Mississippi, West Virginia) have low homeless rates. The poorest countries in the continent have low homeless rates. Because it's easy to find cheap housing.

If there are 100 houses and 110 people, (and there can't be room-mates), wages can go to infinity and the homeless rates won't be reduced.
Thanks. I'm interested in seeing examples (of Alacritty community not being nice). I'm aware of one now [1] but I have not been involved with the Alacritty community much. I read/write a few bug reports when the project was born; after that it has served me very well (compared to iTerm2 and Terminal.app). IIRC there was something with ligatures but I don't remember.

Thus far I have not been able to get my italic bold font (Cartograph CF) working on Ghostty, but this is a minor issue.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42532762
Aalborg in Denmark used to be free, but is now ~24 USD for 8 days, $3 per started 24 hours. Parking by the train station is at least $30+ per day.

Billund is $45 for a week and Copenhagen is $70 for a week. That covers the three busiest Danish airports. Parking is cheap, especially compared to the time save by taking the plane.

I get its different from country to country and I guess I'm just really annoyed with the continued insisting that trains are better than planes, when there's almost no benefit to trains in my country. They are practically pointless, out matched by busses, planes and cars, unless you just happen to have a usage pattern that fit exactly with the layout and timetables.
I really do think hallucinated references are a thing of the past. Models will still make things up, but they won't make up references.

ChatGPT with web search does a good job of summarizing content.
Referrals and networking? When has submitting a resume to a portal ever been the way to find a job other than a cookie cutter one?

Apply like a bot, work like a bot.
F40 on Intel or AMD gfx has worked well for me. Not a single crash in the year I’ve run it.
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Living_below_your_means
In my arbitrary camp: I don't carry a cell phone, so if your tech requires me to "use the app" (e.g. parking in my mid-sized US town), I just won't pay for parking (instead: use a handicapped placard — which makes parking free — I wouldn't have done this if coins still worked in our parking lot meters).
The prize was an appearance at their Vegas show in addition to the trophy. They have broken their own rules a couple times.
Alot of those values make more sense, if you stop to view them as some side effect for individual happiness and more as cooperate digestive tract juices.
If you are dumb enough not to hire someone who is able to integrate ChatGPT from analbeads into a conversation while looking natural then that is on you.
If 1 out of 10 chmessicians discover something useful, the discoverer had good taste and deserves credit.

There is no insurance redistributing credit amongst all of the pointless searches.

The guys who invented imaginary numbers or eigenvectors weren't just throwing darts at a board and got "lucky".
So now that China has skin in the game, will they very soon stop stealing IP by your logic?
And ChatGPT 4o (at least the paid version) and the AI overview in Google both give real time links to sources. Well at least you can ask the paid version of ChatGPT to give you sources and it will do a web search
I'm not a Spotify user, I'm an Apple Music user, though if there wasn't Apple Music I'd use Spotify.

The reason that I'd never use YT Music is that I never trust anything from Google: their interfaces are ugly, everything's user-unfriendly, and they have the habit of discontinuing a service at any time. Also it has the impression of not really being well-thought as a product: why name a music service after a video service? I know it's not the case but it always reminds me of those low quality music playlists where people collected low quality unofficial music videos back then in YT just for the music: simply not the right tool for the job.
My Partner has absolute dogshit spatial memory. I visit a city once and I remember my bearings instinctively, probably due to playing a lot of badly designed mazelike Video games, but she can visit a City several times and still get lost going somewhere she has been before. Should we be worried?
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"I’d arrive in a new city each morning feeling refreshed because of the train’s sleeping accommodations."

Aeh, where were you travelling? Many countries did not have sleeper trains. Don't get me wrong. I did the same, travelling at night in trains, and it saved me a night in a hotel. But I did not arrive well rested, I arrived train wrecked.